Image space analysis and separation for G-semidifferentiable vector problems

Abstract

This paper aims at studying, in the image space, an approximation of a vector optimization problem obtained by substituting the involved functions with their -derivatives. It is shown that, under the hypothesis of -differentiability, the existence of a lower semistationary point is equivalent to the linear separation between the image of the approximated problem and a suitable convex subset of the image space. Applications to optimality conditions are provided.

Keywords:

• vector optimization
• image space
• separation

AMS Subject Classifications:

• 90C
• 49J